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	Henry Smith Pritchett Information
		Henry Smith Pritchett (April 16 1857 – August 28 1939) was a U.S. astronomer and educator.
		Pritchett was born in Fayette, MO, and attended Pritchett College (of Glasgow, MO) receiving the A.B. in 1875.
		Pritchett Lounge, on the second floor of Walker Memorial at MIT is named in his honor.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Henry_Smith_Pritchett (306 words)

	Redeeming Reason
		Pritchett argued that denominational influences on colleges made for unsound education, encouraged the existence of too many small schools, were institutionally inefficient, and compromised the public good.
		Emile Durkheim and Adam Smith are famous for their studies of the process of economic specialization.
		Adam Smith was particularly enthusiastic about this process, which Durkheim called the "division of labor", because he saw in it the means for dramatic economic progress, as described in his well known book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776).
	www.redeemingreason.org /Resources/part1.html (7269 words)

	Abraham Flexner Papers (Library of Congress)
		Correspondence of Henry S. Pritchett (1901-1910) Subjects: Education Educational change Medical education--Canada Medical education--United States Research Occupations: Authors Educators Reformers Administrative Information Provenance: The papers of Abraham Flexner, educational reformer and author, were given to the Library of Congress by Flexner in 1954.
		Impressed with Flexner's critical writings on higher education, Carnegie Foundation president Henry S. Pritchett hired Flexner in 1908 to study and report on the status of education in the medical profession.
		The series also includes correspondence of Henry S. Pritchett pertaining to his service as a civilian representative on the Light-House Board of the Department of Commerce and Labor from 1901 to 1910.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/flexner.html (740 words)

	Untitled Article
		The Smiths started fostering Willie Smith when he was 11 months old, and weren't able to adopt him until he was 5.
		The Smiths became foster parents eight years ago, at the urging of their friend, Gloria Daniel, who is in change of foster parent resource development for the Department of Family and Children's Services.
		Smith was adopted two years ago by his foster parents, Frances and Henry Smith.
	times-herald.com /archives/news/2002/1104.html (2807 words)

	"P" Famous People
		Pétain, (Henri) Philippe (Omer) (1856-1951) French soldier and statesman, born in Cauchy-à-la-Tour, N France.
		Pirenne, Henri (1862-1935) Historian of Belgium and mediaeval Europe, born in Verviers...
		Pritchett, Henry (Smith) (1857-1939) Foundation executive, born in Fayette, Missouri, USA.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Pfam (13285 words)

	Ohio Reading Road Trip \| O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) Criticism and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The O. Henry Page features links to a number of essays of literary criticism of O. Henry's work.
		In Korb's essay, "she discusses the varying critical opinions expressed about O. Henry's work, maintaining that such stories as 'The Gift of the Magi' are carefully crafted, achieve the author's intentions, and successfully speak to the audience for which they were written.
		These stories have been widely read and enjoyed throughout the world, and even though in the eyes of some they may not be considered first-rate literature, they have become a significant part of the short story genre.
	www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org /ohenry/criticism.html (758 words)

	The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.8, page 554, Mar. 1906, U. of Illinois Press
		Pritchett found King ineligible, however, because he was a Baptist connected with a Baptist institution.
		Eliot, and in an interview with Pritchett asked to be made an exception to the ban on sectarian teachers.
		Pritchett was noncommital, however, and the Carnegie Foundation board rejected the request.
	www.historycooperative.org /btw/Vol.8/html/554.html (563 words)

	Company A, 'Gilmer Light Guards', 65th Georgia Infantry Regiment, CSA
		Smith's Legion, Ga. Vols, this Company became Co. A, 65th Regt.
		Battn., Smith's Legion, Ga. Vols., Aug. 4, 1862; to Co. A, 65th Regt.
		This company was organized in May 1862 as Co B, Inf Battn., Smith's Legion, Ga. Vols.
	www.izzy.net /~michaelg/65-a.htm (3358 words)

	Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund -- Company History
		Pritchett and Carnegie recognized that retirement pensions could strengthen higher education by improving the financial security of college teachers.
		Henry James, the president of TIAA in 1935, urged institutions to act as guiding forces in providing for the security of their employees.
		Henry James's observations changed the nature of TIAA, from playing a passive investment role to a more active role in disseminating information and advising.
	www.fundinguniverse.com /company-histories/Teachers-Insurance-and-Annuity-AssociationCollege-Retirement-Equities-Fund-Company-History.html (3976 words)

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		HENRY C. Henry C. Olsen, who was engaged in flight checking the Reno aeronautical chart, was killed in an automobile accident near Reno, Nevada, on April 21, his 35th birthday.
		Henry Smith Pritchett, who was the 9th Superintendent of this Survey, serving from December 1, 1897 to November 30, 1900, died from bronchial pneumonia at his home in Santa Barbara, California, on the morning of August 28, 1939, at the age of 82.
		Pritchett was president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1906-1930).
	www.lib.noaa.gov /edocs/candgs_bios/biographyo-z.html (19228 words)

	ROBERT HUNTER PAPERS
		Henry Hoyns. It is being turned over to our literary editor, Mr.
		Feb 25: George H[enry] Wilkinson, Lord Mayor of London, to Robert Hunter. I have received a communication from Lloyd's Bank that they have received instructions from you to donate proceeds of dividends received on your behalf to my fund. Applying 15.96 pounds sent by them to the National Air Raid Distress Fund. ALS.
		Pritchett, Henry Smith: Notes about his life in Santa Barbara, California, filed with Hunter's letter to Dr. Abraham Flexner, 11-18-1941.
	www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0415.html (4759 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		If faithfully carried out, each man doing his own part quickly and well, the scene of the large student-body entering quietly and with dignity cannot fail to be impressive.
		Among the speakers are Bishop Law- rence, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Presi- dent James Mason Crafts, and the President- Elect, Henry Smith Pritchett.
		As the success of the afternoon will, in a great measure, depend upon the promptitude and dignity with which each studeht deports himself, the following arrangement for seat- ing the student-body is earnestly recom- mended to its attention.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_020/TECH_V020_S0084_P002.txt (657 words)

	Deaths- November, 1999
		Smith was born May 13, 1972, in Atlanta, and had lived in Hogansville for 15 years.
		Smith was born October 4, 1924 in Buchanan, Ga., son of the late Hoke and Myrtie DeFoor Smith.
		Surviving are one son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Kay Smith of Newnan; grandchildren, Jason Smith and Dan Smith, both of Newnan.
	www.times-herald.com /deaths/1199.html (7775 words)

	NOAA History - Profiles in Time/C&GS Biographies -Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett
		Of Welsh extraction, Dr. Pritchett was born in Fayette, Missouri, April 16, 1857, the son of Carl Waller and Elizabeth Susan (Smith) Pritchett.
		Dr. Pritchett was president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1906-1930).
		He was married in 1900 to Eva McAllister of San Francisco, to whom a daughter, Edith Pritchett, was born.
	www.history.noaa.gov /cgsbios/biop15.html (353 words)

	The Banks County News Obit Page
		The Rev. Smith was born January 15, 1905 in the Fairview Community of Franklin County.
		As a Baptist minister, the Rev. Smith served as pastor of Fairview Baptist Church from 1942 to 1945, and from 1945 to 1966, he served as pastor of Berea Baptist Church in Asheville, N.C. The Rev. Smith had been a resident of Fort Myers, Fla., since 1966.
		The Rev. Smith was the great-great-great-grandson of Henry Smith, Revolutionary War veteran and pioneer of Franklin County.
	www.mainstreetnews.com /Arch/99/0630/BNObits.html (765 words)

	History
		In the report Flexner made to Henry Smith Pritchett, Ph.D., president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and former professor of astronomy at Washington University, he said that one of two courses must be adopted: "The department must be either abolished or reorganized."
		Pritchett mailed the report to Robert S. Brookings, a St. Louis merchant who was president of the Board of Directors of Washington University.
		Brookings was shocked and immediately went to New York to see Flexner, demanding proof that the conditions were as bad as described.
	bulletinoftheschoolofmedicine.wustl.edu /medpa/bulletin.nsf/WV/C5B63CDEF1CB514B86256E6A00599E7E (703 words)

	Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: Survivor: The Race Wars?
		James Pritchett, professor of anthropology and director of the African Studies Center at Boston University, told The Boston Herald on Thursday.
		I would also point out that, lost a bit in Survivor's big splash, The Amazing Race (which has, to my mind, a more intriguing overall record of displaying and discussing race and other factors) has also announced one of their most diverse slates of competitors as well.
		Henry Jenkins is the co-founder of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program.
	www.henryjenkins.org /2006/08/survivor_the_race_wars.html (3362 words)

	Virginians: The Family History of John Pritchett (c.1731-1804)
		I was born in Dinwiddie County, probably a grandson of Joshua Pritchett.
		Lucy and I were the parents of 5 or 6 sons and maybe some daughters, all born in Dinwiddie.
		Information about the children of John Pritchett, their descendants, and allied families previously found at Virginians.com is now available as Southside Virginia Genealogies.
	www.virginians.com /topics/80.htm (550 words)

	Combs &c. Families of Prince George's Co Maryland
		To son John Smith (PRATHER), at 18 yrs., and hrs., 166 A., part of "Sprig's Request." To Philip PRATHER and hrs., 166 A., residue of "Sprig's Request." To daus.
		Edward DIGGES married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Henry and Elizabeth HATTON (Brooke) Darnell of Anne Arundel County.
		Servants Walter THOMPSON, John HASTINS, John SMITH, Izia BONNELL and George NOBLE to be disposed of by exs.
	www.combs-families.org /combs/records/md/princegeorges (4766 words)

	Pickaway County, Ohio History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the 15th of July, 1862, this regiment was organized at Lancaster by the military committees of the counties of Fayette, Pickaway, Fairfield, Hocking, Vinton and Perry.
		Smith, John Smith, Aaron Stephens, Joseph Tatman, William H. Tilton, John Timmons, Luther Tumbleson, William Waston, John Wiegand, Pleasant F. Wilson, John H. Wilson, John F. Williams, George W. Wood, Joshua O. Yates, John Yates.
		Under the old Ohio militia law, every able bodied man, between the ages of 18 and 45, was a member of the militia, and was required to attend the annual musters, where the raw militia, armed with cornstalks, were put through the prescribed military evolutions.
	www.heritagepursuit.com /Pickaway/PickawayChapXXIII.htm (11873 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: WRONG TRINITY
		In 1905, for example, Andrew Carnegie gave $10 million to establish a professors' pension fund.
		Pritchett argued that denominational influences on colleges made for unsound education, encouraged the existence of too many small schools, were institutionally inefficient, and compromised the public good.
		In response, 15 colleges immediately severed their ties with their religious denominations in order to get a share of the Carnegie money?including Wesleyan, Dickinson, Swarthmore, Brown, Bowdoin, Rutgers, Rochester, and Occidental.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/005781.html (1394 words)

	Who's Who within the Waller Family
		Colonel Waller was with General Washington at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, after which he returned to his home in Henry County, lived the life of a gentleman planter, and served his county and state until his death on November 18, 1814.
		His father removed with his family to Warren county, Mo., in 1835, where Carr attended the common school, and in 1844 he began to teach in private schools In 1846 he became a licentiate in the ministry of the Methodist church, and was for many years a member of the Missouri annual conference.
		He was married in Pike county, Mo., Oct. 17, 1849, to Bettie Susan, daughter of Byrd and Sarah Hatcher (Woodson) Smith of Danville, Va.; she died at Glasgow, Mo., Nov. 27, 1872.
	www.alleylaw.net /who.html (6233 words)

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		Pritchett, Henry Smith, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching.
		Outgoing correspondence by Folwell or his representative, dealing with military education may be found in Folder 29 filed chronologically: n.d.â”Information that military instruction in land grant colleges grew out of Act of Congress of July 2, 1862.
		Additional material concerning the beginnings of the Department of Agriculture may be found in Folwellâs outgoing correspondence which is filed chronologically in Folder 29: 1871, Dec. 11 report to Frederick Watts, Commissioner of Agriculture 1874, March 9 Letter to Andrew D. White re investigation of Agricultural colleges by House Committee.
	special.lib.umn.edu /findaid/xml/uarc00965.xml (10058 words)

	Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
		Oxford John Henry Parker; J. And J. Rivington, London 1840, Cloth Poor 419 pp., bound in embossed cloth, boards detached, endpapers detached, library markings inside front board, title page, othewise good, with spine lacking, boards worn at extremities.
		Horace B. Fry was the brother of William Henry Fry, the music composer/writer, and the son of the publisher of the National Gazette.
		Emilie filed for divorce immediately after marrying due to the "violence" against her[she stated her threw her around, verbally abused her, and was going to shoot her!].Horace B. Fry was the brother of William Henry Fry, the music composer/writer, and the son of the publisher of the National Gazette.
	www.ilab.org /db/books2161_8.html (6071 words)

	Honorary Degrees
		Haskell, Henry J. Doctor of Laws, UMC conferred 1935.
		Smith, Louis W. Doctor of Engineering, UMR conferred May 15, 1993.
		Smith, Tom K. Doctor of Laws, UMC conferred 1935.
	muarchives.missouri.edu /honorarydegree.html (7791 words)

	AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY - AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1999
		In 1855 the Oxford mathematician Henry Smith gave an elementary proof involving the use of continuants.
		This paper discusses the Smith proof and shows how his method can be extended to give uniqueness.
		There is a brief account of the life and achievements of Henry Smith, recently called "the mathematician the world forgot".
	www.maa.org /pubs/monthly_aug_sep_toc.html (729 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PRITCHETT, HENRY CARR
		Henry Carr Pritchett, teacher and administrator, son of William Ira and Martha Ann (Hubbard) Pritchett, was born on August 12, 1852, in Warren County, Missouri.
		In 1867 the family moved to Glasgow, Missouri, where, in 1873, Henry graduated from Pritchett Institute.
		He received his M.A. two years later, although he had meanwhile started his career of teaching.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/PP/fpr12.html (214 words)

	Summers is 2nd MIT teacher to become Harvard president - MIT News Office
		In 1900, President Crafts was succeeded by Henry Smith Pritchett, 42, who took a great interest in student life.
		President Pritchett, not a Harvard graduate, was interested in Professor Eliot's ideas for a merger of Harvard and MIT because he saw it as a solution to MIT's severe turn-of-the-century financial pressures.
		But after a faculty and alumni uproar on the issue, President Pritchett resigned in 1907.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2001/summerside-0314.html (319 words)

	Mechanicsville Local (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In a corner of Mechanicsville-the Aspen Hill Farms neighborhood to be precise-a joyful noise is being made.
		Henry Smith runs the Outback Studio "out back" of his garage, an especially built recording studio for recording the performances of artists who have a "positive message and something good to say," he says.
		Smith, who is legally blind, has been involved with music since he was a teenager.
	www.mechlocal.com /archives/nov2900/othernews.html (1053 words)

	The Arts in Santa Barbara, essay by Janet B. Dominik
		In November 1922 the Community Arts Association received from the Carnegie Corporation a grant of $25,000 a year for five years, the money to be distributed among the four branches.
		The grant was secured through the efforts of Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and, at that time, a resident of Santa Barbara.
		After the 1925 earthquake which severely damaged the school, the Carnegie Corporation gave the association an additional $25,000 for the construction of a new school and, at the same time, extended the original grant through October 1, 1930.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa654.htm (1085 words)

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